Possibly, though part of me suspects (somewhat worryingly), this is becoming a trend worldwide. That pro free speech parties and politicians seem to increasingly be a minority in many places, and that restrictions on freedom of speech that would have been seem as unthinkable years ago are now being offered as serious suggestions.

As for why this is happening... well I think the media attention on extremists and online trolling seem to have led a lot of people to think 'free speech' is somehow a bad thing that helps their opponents, in the same way the war on terror caused privacy and encryption to come under fire because of 'national security concerns'. I worry that freedom of speech has become villified as something 'the bad guys' use.

But that's just my take on it.